Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments.

Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Schultz (A) , Solache
Last action: 2026-04-21
Official status: Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify if this applies to charter schools.

School Funding Based on Attendance

This law changes how schools get money based on student attendance by using an average of five years if it provides more funding than three years, and allows excluding the days with the lowest attendance.

What This Bill Does

Changes how school funding is calculated to use an average of the last five fiscal years if it gives more money than using only the last three years.
Allows schools to exclude the five days with the least attendance from their current and previous year's calculations when figuring out regular daily attendance.

Who It Names or Affects

School districts
County superintendents of schools

Terms To Know

Average daily attendance (ADA): The average number of students present in school each day over a period.
Local control funding formula: A system used to calculate how much state money schools receive based on factors like student needs and attendance.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify when it will take effect.
It only applies to the calculation of school funding under specific circumstances, not other aspects of education finance.

Bill History

2026-04-21 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-20 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 15).
2026-03-17 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2026-03-16 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-16 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2509, as amended, Schultz.
Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments.
Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined. For purposes of the local control funding formula, existing law requires a school district’s fiscal year average daily attendance to be computed using the 2nd principal apportionment regular average daily attendance for the greater of the current fiscal year, the prior fiscal year, or the average of the 3 most recent prior fiscal years, as specified.
This bill, for purposes of the local control funding formula, would require a school district’s fiscal year average daily attendance to be
computed using the average of the 5 most recent prior fiscal years, if that average is greater than the 3 averages described above.
For purposes of computing the regular average daily attendance, the bill would authorize a school district to exclude the 5 days, in which attendance was taken, with the lowest recorded attendance from the current fiscal year and the prior fiscal year.

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